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Bent on avoiding a flare-up in the smoking Suez crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS), the Administration had tried to nudge the Israelis out of Sinai by threatening to support U.N. sanctions against Israel. President Eisenhower sent a warning letter to Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion, and both Ike and Secretary of State Dulles dropped public hints for Israeli consumption-at the same time hoping fervently that the hints would be enough to forestall an embarrassing U.N. vote on sanctions...
Ever since the flare-up in Hungary, trim-whiskered Walter Ulbricht, Communist boss of East Germany, has been like a cat on the hot tin roof of satellite unrest. Two weeks ago the jumpy Ulbricht, unable to stand the heat any longer, alerted the Communist fire department. In a speech before the East German Socialist Unity (Communist) Party Central Committee, he detailed a nefarious plot to overthrow the regime, and named as the chief incendiary a youthful (34) professor and editor named Wolfgang Harich. It was the first time that Ulbricht has acknowledged renewed trouble in East Germany...
...care ? the Italian shoe of exotic cut, the chesterfield with the velvet collar, the bright red sweater that makes his eyes seem green. And when he decides to give somebody the full charge of charm, the eyes glow like coals that have been blown on. the educated nostrils flare just the least little bit, and the rich low cello voice begins to murmur intelligently...
...Ivar Kreuger was both idol and symbol-not, as most men then thought, a Paul Bunyan of finance, but a gross glandular case of surpassing greed. Today, only one tiny match flare from Kreuger's mighty kingdom remains on the financial pages of U.S. newspapers. In mingled hope and irony, Kreuger & Toll 5% debenture bonds, with a $1,000 face value, sell on the N.Y. Stock Exchange for about $40. Before the bond's name appears the tiny letter "q," signifying "in bankruptcy...
...Reward. Extravagantly Nehru praised U.S. conduct in the Suez flare-up, i.e., Ike's forceful denunciation of British and French aggression, informed him that the American attitude opened the door to a new era of confidence and cooperation between the U.S. and India, as well as with the rest of non-Communist Asia. Along with this praise was the implication that India can now act as an advocate of the U.S. among the non-Caucasian peoples of the Middle East and Asia. When the talk turned to money, Ike assured his guest of American willingness to cooperate (possibly with...